Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 58): Quantamentals – The Next Great Forefront Of Trading and Investing
The term “Quantamentals” is a fairly new term to the world of trading and investing. It’s also becoming one of the hottest areas for exciting and new research. As we’ve mentioned before, we’re spending more and more time doing “Quantamental” research. The initial results have surpassed our highest expectations. There’s a lot of upside here. […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 57): 7 Real-World Reasons Why Short Strategies Should Be Included In Your Portfolio
In our new book, The Alpha Formula – High Powered Strategies to Beat the Market with Less Risk, we show the benefits of including short-strategies in your portfolio. As a reminder, building portfolios should be based on First Principles – otherwise known as truths. These truths are: Markets Go Up Market Go Down Markets Go […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 54): Increasing Your Edges With The 4-Period RSI
In two of the strategies presented in our new book, The Alpha Formula: Beat the Market with Less Risk, we utilized the popular technical indicator RSI or Relative Strength Index. Connors Research has been at the forefront of RSI research for decades. We’ve clearly shown that shorter period RSI’s, such as a 2-period or 4-period […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 51): Lower Your Risk With Trend Following… Here’s How
How would you like to apply a simple rule which significantly reduces the risk of your portfolio? Background Trend following is one of the oldest and certainly one of the most successful investment strategies in history. Sometimes called “time series” or “absolute” momentum, trend following uses a securities own past performance to dictate positioning, looking […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 50): A New Frontier For Trading and Investing – Combining Quantitative Analysis With Fundamental Analysis
What happens when you combine high performing quant strategies with high performing fundamental strategies? Designing trading strategies around “Quantamentals” is a rapidly growing research area in trading and finance. Today, in this issue of the Connors Research Traders Journal, we’re going to share with you an example of “quantamentals” at work. We believe you’ll like […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 49): When Markets Panic Investors Herd Into Treasury Bonds
Here Is The Number One Reason Why You Should Always Have A Portion Of Your Portfolio In Treasuries! One of the core themes of our new book, The Alpha Formula – High Powered Strategies to Beat the Market with Less Risk, is to build an investment portfolio by attacking First Principles or objective, self-evident truths. […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 48): 7 Steps to Building a Superior Portfolio
In our new book: The Alpha Formula: High Powered Strategies to Beat the Market with Less Risk, we go beyond just investigating trading strategies/signals and comment on some best practices in building investment portfolios. Portfolio construction is a very important topic, often overlooked by new systematic traders, and can lead to large improvements in the […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 44): Making Money From Behavioral Missteps Made By Others, Part 1 – “Recency Bias”
New! Our new book, The Alpha Formula; Beat The Market With Significantly Less Risk is now available at www.TradingMarkets.com/alphaformula. The four most expensive words in the English language are ‘this time it’s different.” – John Templeton Recency bias is the tendency for people to more prominently recall and emphasize recent events and observations compared to […]
New Book From Larry Connors and Chris Cain, CMT – “The Alpha Formula; High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk “
We’re excited to announce the release of a new investment book written by Larry Connors and Chris Cain, CMT. The book, “The Alpha Formula; High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk “ combines… Hedge fund legend Ray Dalio’s brilliant insight into combining uncorrelated strategies… With new, minimally correlated, quantified, systematic strategies to trade […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 43): Relative Momentum with Low Vol
In this Connors Research Traders Journal, we are going to explore a strategy that combines momentum and low volatility along with a risk management/trend following overlay. This combination results in an impressive performance over the last 16 years, handily beating the S&P 500, especially when viewed from a risk-adjusted return basis. The Momentum and Low […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 42): Optimize Your Trading By Understanding Volatility Regimes
The following is an excerpt from research presented in our upcoming book “The Alpha Formula” which will be released this summer. Knowing what kind of market you are in is an important step in developing a trading strategy. Ideally, you want your strategy to be optimized for the current market – some strategies do […]